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    Introduction to Interface-Driven Development Using Swagger and Scalatra

    by Dave Hrycyszyn Follow 0 Followers on  Nov 06, 2012 2

    Since it began life a little over three years ago, the Scalatra web micro-framework has evolved into a lightweight but full-featured MVC framework with a lively community behind it. Scalatra started out as a port of Ruby's Sinatra to the Scala language. Since then the two systems have evolved independently, with Scalatra gaining capabilities such as an Atmosphere integration and Akka support.

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    Java 8 vs Scala: a Feature Comparison

    by Urs Peter Follow 0 Followers , Sander van den Berg Follow 0 Followers on  Jun 29, 2012 27

    This article explores some of Java 8’s new features, using both Java’s proposed syntax and Scala. We cover lambda expressions, higher-order functions, parallel collections and virtual extension methods aka traits. Besides this, we will provide insights into the new paradigms integrated in Java 8, such as functional programming.

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    Benchmarking JVM Concurrency Options for Java, Scala and Akka

    by Michael Slinn Follow 0 Followers on  Apr 26, 2012 2

    Michael Slinn examines how to benchmark JVM concurrency options for JVM-based langauges including Java and Scala.

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Scala or Java? Exploring myths and facts

Posted by Julio Faerman Follow 0 Followers on  Mar 29, 2012

Scala is better than Java? The complexity is excessive or necessary? Understand the discussion about the language and Its environment. 23

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Martin Odersky on Typesafe Stack and the Future of Scala

Posted by Michael Floyd Follow 0 Followers on  Mar 12, 2012

In this Q&A Martin Odersky draws the comparisons between F# and Scala, discusses the future of Scala, and addresses once and for all the question of breaking binary compatibility. 1

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David Pollak and Dick Wall Discuss Barriers to Scala Adoption

Posted by Rick Hightower Follow 0 Followers on  Oct 04, 2011

InfoQ catches up with David Pollak and Dick Wall to comment on brouhaha stirring "Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard" post, as well as the future of Scala (opinions on Groovy, Ceylon, Java Lambda, and more) 21

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Scala.Net and Scala with Martin Odersky

Posted by Michael Stal Follow 0 Followers on  Aug 17, 2011

We talked with Martin Odersky, Chairman, Chief Architect and co-founder of Typesafe, about Scala.Net, the version of Scala that support .Net as well as about Scala in general.

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An Introduction to Scala for Java Developers

Posted by Thomas Alexandre Follow 0 Followers on  Aug 16, 2011

Scala combines the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, using a concise syntax that is fully compatible with Java and runs on the JVM. This article provides an introduction to Scala. 5

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Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation As Primary Drivers

Posted by Charles Humble Follow 168 Followers on  Jul 04, 2011

While still a major user of Ruby and Rails, Twitter has gradually been moving more and more of its stack to Java and Scala. InfoQ spoke to Twitter engineer Evan Weaver to find out more. 13

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Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala

Posted by Charles Humble Follow 168 Followers on  Apr 04, 2011

Citing a need to be able to respond faster to events, and disappointment in both feature set and timeframe for Java 7, the guardian.co.uk team is using Scala rather than Java for new projects. 12

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LinkedIn Signal: A Case Study for Scala, JRuby and Voldemort

Posted by Dio Synodinos Follow 2 Followers on  Oct 11, 2010

This article aims to provide more insight into the motivation and technical challenges that the LinkedIn team faced, while combining Scala, JRuby and Voldemort, at such scale.

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Scala & Spring: Combine the best of both worlds

Posted by Urs Peter Follow 0 Followers on  May 19, 2010

Scala and Spring are a promising match. Based on a concrete example, this article shows how the power of Scala combined with the proven and productive Spring framework can be unleashed. 5

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